Moderator Action Sticky

Brian has requested that instead of deleting each individual comment in the Moderator Action Sticky, that we instead just create a new thread. It takes hours of less time, preserves the comments for future explanations, and just clears things up faster.

You'll notice that the previous thread is now locked, and will slowly fade back into darkness. For the time being, the link from the Useful Stuff menu will point to the wrong location. We're working on a fix for that.

This thread is an ad-hoc way of tracking what threads and comments get removed. Mods that remove a thread should post the title here with a brief reason as to why the thread is gone.

NOTE: if you leave an irrelevant comment in this thread it will be deleted.

Thanks for being apologetic about it before posting. The news is tangentally related to Michigan since Lewan and Roh's coach is involved but the "RR is learning" tack (actually he's aping Dantonio) is not appreciated.

Deleted for two reasons: First, it was a stupid thread - if you're going to post a "I'm drunk" thread at least make it somewhat creative or entertaining. Second, I'm not able to be in New Orleans and the thread and OP made me feel left out. :-(

This GIF is all over this Board already and didn't deserve its own thread. Plus, Mrs. Kass would probably not approve (I subscribe to the WWMrs.KD philosophy), although, I admit that I do love embiggened bounciness . . .

Questioning an athlete's intelligence (basketball intelligence or otherwise) is a recipe for getting a thread pulled. This is especially true for a kid who grew up in NBA locker rooms. The fact that the OP refused to change the thread title to something non-sucky didn't help.

Hippocrates is spelled wrong. And you shouldn't blame him for Posey getting invited to the senior bowl -- there's no way when he invented Western medicine in the 5th century B.C. he could have foreseen the world he would be creating would have an Ohio State in it.

However if he means the Hippocrates who was the father of the tyrant Peisistratos, then I'm with him: if the Oracle says your child is going to be a dick, you LISTEN!

Thread could have been fun but OP was beligerent and ruined the whole thing. It was more of an "F- everyone" thread than a "celebrate Lloyd Brady" thread, thereby making the OP's story and uncool one . . . wait for it . . . Bro.

Posted twice. Now, you may be saying, "but this one was posted first." And you're right, but for whatever reason people responded to the second one. Two lessons: (1) Informative thread titles are the punch and pie of posts, and (2) life is unfair.

Per Brian's direction, no Rodriguez posts unless (and I'm paraphrasing) they directly relate to the current status of Michigan football or are thought-provoking historical analysis. This one was neither and no good could or did come from it.

Already posted. Also, degenerates took the opportunity to start a fight about whether this was appropriate Board news or not. Note to MGoWorld - the moderators are here to handle these kinds of things. If you have a problem with what is being posted and we've missed it, post a quick note here and we'll get to it as soon as possible.

What, you don't hit the refresh button at least hourly so that you see every thread that is posted on the Board? You have other things in your life that you need to do? Stop. Get your priorities straight. Either that or use the "Site Search" tool to check and make sure your topic wasn't already posted mere hours ago.

I would need a Hitler Downfall parody video to fully explain the problems with this, but to summarize: posting "I really want these guys" in a manner that makes people think we already GOT these guys is a bad idea.

Gravity is 9.8 ms2, pi is 3.141592654... and when Michigan has a good day State fans will cry and make jerkoff motions and generally try their best to piss on the parade. This is a constant, not news, and you're messing with the mojo of the happy threads.

No. Not-so-creative titled thread praising Hoke by exclusively attacking Rodriguez is a dead thread. I know it spawned from an ESPN article but Rule 7 of Wedding Crashing does not apply here. OP should know how to present the information better. Return trip home from Bolivian is April 1, 2012.

It's the kind of thing I could care less about, but which will just get reposted 90 times if we delete the first one. The comments were already descending deep into "[group] needs to stop being whiny" territory, so I changed the title and locked the thread.

FTR I'm pretty sure this group cares way more about its core issues, but c'mon man if he was making players wear peyus and yarmulkes to make the statement that if you're not trying hard enough you're a Jew...well I'd find that funny but it would still be offensive. Also: a football coach is a homophobe: most shocking news ever?

If anyone asks how they lost 1,000 times as many points tonight as Michigan left on the court in missed layups, ask them if they've said "I'm just telling it like it is" recently.

Cleaned out several threads and a pair of double-posts. If you feel you were unfairly moderated tonight by a pissed off editor who spent too much time talking to doctors about terrible choices today, I'll hear your appeals so long as you didn't say "telling it like it is."

It sucks. There is nothing good about this situation. It sucks from top to bottom, front to back, and eight ways from Sunday. But while there is much to be learned from it, the board probably isn't the place to attempt to do so. The conflagration of race, politics, and murder makes for flamebait regardless of anyone's intentions to the contrary.

Good find but probably doesn't deserve its own thread. Please do post in one of the two Hollis-Burke-Brandon threads on the front page though. Definitely something people will want to read.

[Edit: I changed my mind - this whole story is thread-worthy enough that 3 different ones on the front page is fine for the off-season. If it were in-season my original stance would stand (or something like that).]

I thought this thread was going to be about terrible threads. Now THAT would have been a fun read, people reminiscing about threads that got punted for various reasons. An MGoHistory of sorts. Feel free to start that one - I'll participate. This thread, however, was not much fun and a little too OT for this moderator, even during the offseason.

User was confused about what mods do. Readers over a certain points threshold are able to "moderate" comments, and those comments that get enough negative votes become grayed out. If you wish to see them, they're still there--just change your personal threshold for negative comments. The original post can still be pos'ed or negged the old fashioned way.

1) As MisopoSeth indicated, we don't moderate comments. Any user with more than 100 points can moderate comments. An upvote (funny, insightful, whatever) increases the score by 1 (up to 5), and a downvote (overrated, flamebait, etc.) decreases by 1 (down to -1).

2) You can make the "greyed" comments visible by changing the settings below the OP; where it says "threshold," set it to "-1." All comments will be visible, even the ones other people think suck.

3) Yes. We are too sensitive. We weren't loved enough by our parents, and we still haven't fully processed the Falklands War. It gets to be a lot, ya know?

I should probably send the OP on a weekend getaway to Bolivian (where I hear the weather is nice this time of year) but I'm too tired to do the extra work. Caring for a toddler and an infant at home is a LOT of work. They should videotape my life and show it in 7th grade health classes during their lessons on absenence.

Even though the OP links new articles, I think this was sufficiently hashed out a while back. Plus, Meyer has to have something to say to kids considering both schools that ask about academics. Not having any answer would be stupid (even though what he has decided to say is just as silly).

One guy got one month penalty box for troll behavior. Nothing wrong with criticizing Ace--responses to your responses need work. User has contributed productively in the past so no hammer.

Deleted a piece of the responses where people were getting political about the national registry. I think folks on the blog know where to find it if they so desire, so the only thing it was doing here was acting as a political lightning rod.

Not even close. Try any Saturday when the football team loses for proof--and that doesn't count the threads we delete. Specifically, try the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Brian actually repealed free speech to slow down the traffic.

Third time is a charm? Nah, not unless the charm is an ear necklace from 'Nam.

[Edit: Upon review, it appears as though the original "Mr. Trololo has passed away" was unpublished for some reason and the first one was about him being in a coma. Although it seems a bit superfluous since most of the discussion will be redundant from the first thread, I'm going to republish this one since its technically new news. My bad.]

No. No "but." You can't just preface a thread with an acknowledgement of the terribleness and then proceed with the terribleness. You don't see physicists writing papers that start "I know perpetual motion is technically impossible, but..." You don't see lawyers lead opening statements with "My client is definitely guilty, but..."

Hello: posts are a bad place to be testing the boundaries of the boobage rules. They come in the middle of weekdays and folk who would save analysis for when they get home will want to instantly read up on the newest Wolverine.

I've met two MSU players who were laughably misinformed about Michigan's offense or defensive schemes (Norton thought we ran a 3-4, a tight end believed we don't use tight ends), but this was taking a quote way out of context.

I am hot, sticky, had to throw out my favorite ice cream, and all the niceness that usually keeps me from insta-banning people who badmouth Wilcher acolytes is as gone as the people who badmouthed recruits today are now gone. Sucks to be anyone badmouthing recruits today.

We relax the rules for OT: local pro teams because VERLANDER and because we're big sports fans. And we relax the rules for OT: Kate Upton because KATE UPTON (and she's a Michigan fan). However the NO CELEBRITY GOSSIP WHAT THE HELL SITE DO YOU THINK THIS IS? rule needs a stern reminder.

Work was tearing me up the last week of June, we went on vacation last week, and now we are frantically searching for a place to live now that we're under contract to sell our home (without having even listed it for sale!!). In other words, I've been and will probably continue to be a worthless moderator for a couple of more weeks. 1,000 lashes are in order, plus a huge negbang. Sorry I'm not pulling my weight, fellas.

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I found it pretty ridiculous that the Chris Armstrong thread was immediately locked. That was one of the biggest stories of many's time at UM and even a significantly important one.

There's no politics. We should be able to discuss that issue as it brought out a lot of what is good at the University of Michigan - a President defending a student, students of many viewpoints standing as one, etc.

If a person or two cannot behave like adults, then deal with them - you don't have to ruin it for the rest of us.

But in practice, I'm with ZL on this one. I just got home, looked at the board, saw the thread title, and thought to myself, "Godwin, have mercy on us."

This topic has been discussed in the past, and has predictably produced some spirited discussion. And if this was mid-afternoon, sure, what the hell, I'd babysit the thread. But if we leave that thread unattended overnight, history tells me that we will awaken to comments like "Goddamn Kyrgyzstan had it coming" and "the gays cause unemployment."

The real crime is Armstrong gets $4.5 million for having to put up with that guy for like 5 incidents. Meanwhile 4th floor Hunt House of South Quad had to put up with Shirvell for two semesters and get bupkis.

Which I know Brian tries to never bomb someone for disagreeing with him, but it's not really showing you're feeling sorry and heeding hte warning by doing this. No regret or remorse. Do Brian the favor by bringing the ban hammer for him.

I don't say this just because I don't like what he says; everyone knows Section 1 and I butt heads every ten minutes, but I'd never (seriously) call for his ban. We all lose our cool on occasion, but there's a difference between that and zero value added. And frankly, it's kind of makes the site look worse because it shows the permissiveness AA.com allows in its posts. Other teams' trolls are annoying. our own team's trolls are embarrassing.

Many users have faced point reductions affecting their ability to edit any of the "trusted user" topics, post diaries and MGoBoard posts, ect. or faced a ban on commenting for using the same type of "cute nicknames" Brian warns against in his Official MGoBlog Pet Peeve List. I'm wondering why a user is allowed to say "Walverines" twice in a comment, post modified quotes about the 1968 Democratic Convention or gay marriage and not have any repercussions on the board. I'm trying not to get into my opinion on the topic, but can I have a black and white ruling on what posts/nicknames are okay and which aren't?

Removing that thread was outrageous. That family is screwed now. I doubt the child will even have a name -- he'll probably just turn into some kind of sociology experiment where we see what happens when a human being has no natural way to refer to himself.

I read the initial article and I agree with ZL: there was no new information here. His gist was "LOIs are not scholarships" and that "it's different in the South" because many of the kids who sign LOIs don't end up making it to Bama. He vastly overstated the number of non-qualifiers and those who get drafted to play baseball the following spring to make his point, and failed to address the key points of dramatic medical hardship over-use, very high transfer attrition from the bottom of the depth chart, or the big kahuna: that it creates a situation where the coach HAS to have 15 or so guys "choose baseball" every year, etc., therefore creating a situation where the coach isn't acting in his players' best interests.

From a more established poster, okay, I might let this slide as discussion, however this user has been beating this particular drum before, and is far more interested in having his say than having a discussion.

Considering that and his reaction (an all-caps board post that broke not-Godwin's Law), this is a pretty clear-cut banhammer. If other Bama fans want to come here and have an open debate on the topic of oversigning, that is very welcome. This particular user is not.

A while back, he was complaining about being downvoted in the Mod Action Thread and I specifically told him not to try and win an oversigning argument here. At best, that thread would have dissolved into everyone on the board ganging up on him and him writing increasingly angry posts. Personally, I didn't care about the rationale (although it was pretty pathetic).

Strangely enough, he got more slack than I would probably have given a Michigan fan. I want the opposite opinion here and really like the commentary of some of the OSU, ND, and MSU posters.

He called us Nazis a couple of times already. I don't know if we would put up with that level of shit from a long time member/Michigan fan. For a short-timer who will probably be gone in a week anyway, drop the hammer with great anger.

And when one gets the "you are THIS close to being banned" message, and he ignores it...again...and again...it's hard to tell if anyone is aware (I don't think anyone expects the mods to read every single post on the blog. Even I don't do that). And the previous poster saw that he was still posting today. So the wheels, they kind grind slow at times.

Listen, I want to apologize to you all. It was never my intent to be labelled a troll, but in coming to enemy territory I guess its the nature of the business.

I like college football a lot. I like coming here because some of your posters are the most intelligent football people around and some others are pretty damn funny.

As the "enemy" I didn't think you would mind some good natured ribbing, I can take it. I have been for 20 years. Clearly I was incorrect on this assumption. Perhaps even a little debate, IE Kelly's Discipline vs Hoke's Discipline, perhaps not.

Clearly all you want is the world through maize colored glasses and thats fine. I'll sit and lurk and read. But I just wanted to clear the air a bit and let you know where I am coming from.

Carry on.

PS: As for the rumours of being an old Freep troll handle, there is no substance to that. Also I wasn't banned from Irish Envy, I gave up dealing with some of the idiots over there who cannot process reality. I still lurk there.

Gets extra leeway for being a rival. They tend to piss people off quicker for smaller infractions. Plus then we'd never get little nuggets like the suggestion Tom Hammond isn't a ND slappy and stuff. Don't ruin my fun!

I have unilaterally implementing a new rule. Well, I guess the rule isn't NEW so much as it just hasn't been enforced. Either way, it's a thing now, and it's called the Snowflake Rule. The Snowflake Rule is simple: threads that just repeat the same stuff everyone else is thinking are not thread-worthy. Here are some ways to know if you are in violation of the Snowflake Rule:

Your conclusion is something either obvious or completely opinion-based, like "we will be better if the blockers block people" or "Kalis should play because I think he'd be better." Or, as a totally hypothetical example, "Denard should run because Denard is fast at running."

Bottom line: posting a unique take on things is perfectly acceptable. If you want to post about a proposed defensive alignment or scheme that will allow the line to get better penetration? Knock yourself out. Want to demonstrate why Denard should run more by providing an analysis of past running QBs or of Michigan's success based on various run/pass ratios? We'd like to read it. But posting your take on a common question will get your thread pulled like something from a Weezer song.

Come on, this is the same guy whose topic resulted in the original Snowflake classification, and he posts just horrible content. Check it out and tell me that he doesn't deserve to go back to 0 points for our board's sake (and this is just from the last two weeks):

Take my advice Stephen and dont do it. For reasons that I have yet to get an answer on from anyone, one of the mods decided that the avatar you referenced was too revealing (apparently) and you see what I got instead. And I'm a bit cheesed off for three reasons:

A. It wasnt that revealing on any level

B. There are others that are worse...FAR worse...that are allowed to stay up

C. Nobody will tell me why it got popped and what the rationale was tor the popping.